Filming blog #2

It’s a wrap! The filming for our music video is completed and the next step is editing. We began and completed filming on November 27th. The filming process was both fun and challenging. The message that we were trying to portray in the video was to just let loose have fun with the people you love. This made it really easy to shoot and act in the scenes. The actresses, my group members and I, are all friends and enjoy each other’s company. Anytime we’re together we have a blast. There weren’t any major challenges. Any challenge that we had we overcame. One of them was that one of our group members Lauren was on crutches, but we solved this problem by renting a mall cart and pushing her around in it throughout the mall. For certain scenes when she needed to stand there wasn’t an issue because she could stand up for a short period of time.

At the first location, Lauren’s house, everything went as planned. We followed the story board and got our scenes filmed fast. However, at the second and final location, Sawgrass Mills Mall, we did not follow majority of our storyboard. For the scene in the parking garage we decided to do a pan in the elevator of the parking garage instead of the lot. Though, we were still dancing. The scene that took place outside of the mall with us walking in on the cross-walk, became a tracking shot instead of an eye- level shot. In the next scene, we walked through one of the big light up ornament on display. In the next scene, we went inside of the mall and went to the store Hot Topic. When we went inside of this store the manager said that we couldn’t film so all we did was an establishing shot of the outside. We also did an establishing shot of the store H & M. In the next scene we went to Bed Bath & Beyond. In this store we filmed one of our group members laying down and relaxing on one of the display beds. Another group member lightly jumped on the same display bed. In the next scene, we went to the food court and took an establishing shot of a couple of restaurants. In the next scene, we went to the store Target. In this scene two of us had a “sword fight” with the gift wrapping paper and pushed on of our group members Lauren, who was on crutches, on the mall cart down an aisle. In the next scene we went to the arcade In the Game and played basketball and pretended to another game. In the next scene, we went back on track with our storyboard and did the water fountain jump. Then in the final scene we went back to the first location and pretended that it was all a dream. This scene was a wide shot showing all of us.